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Jean Castex announced that establishments open to the public whose government had planned to reopen on December 15 will remain closed for 3 more weeks. “The conditions set for their reopening are unfortunately not met. These are mainly cinemas, theaters, performance halls, museums, but also the reception of the public in sports grounds, in circuses, zoos or even in gaming rooms and casinos ”.
Philippe Lasterle, cultural assistant in Tarbes
“We have been preparing for weeks to reopen our performing arts venues and museums. The Prime Minister announced the postponement of this long-awaited deadline. I measure and share the immense disappointment of cultural players. But this government decision, dictated by health considerations, is binding on us. I want to send to the Tarbes cultural players, with whom I am in permanent contact, a message of support, that of the City and the Mayor, and invite them to look towards 2021 which will be, I hope so, a year of rediscovered freedom. In order to be ready for the reopening in January on the date that the Government will decide, the cultural teams of the City of Tarbes Tarbes Culture will mobilize to continue to welcome companies in “confined residence” in our theaters in order to allow artists , technicians and intermittents to work and continue to enrich the windows of our museums and prepare exhibitions in order, when the time comes, to welcome the public in the best conditions. A message to finish: to help the artists to overcome this ordeal, I invite the Tarbaise and the Tarbais to offer for the end of year celebrations to those and those they love seats of spectacle and to slip them under the Christmas tree. Go to the ticket office of the Théâtre des Nouvelles et du Pari ”.
The 7 candles theater in Maubourguet
“Delicate context obliges, it was the period of the Scottish showers for the T7C: first we learn that the theaters will be authorized to reopen their doors on December 15th, Joy! Then there will be a national curfew from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. Ouch! But your ticket will serve as proof to return home, Phew! And finally, the reopening was postponed for three weeks… So it was the organizational turmoil, long live the adaptation! We have tried everything to shift our December date, unfortunately everyone’s calendar is not infinitely flexible. We are therefore forced to announce, once again, the cancellation of the Huit Femmes show by the C’CHELLE troupe initially scheduled for 12/12, following a first postponement during the first confinement. Believe it, we deplore it enormously, perhaps as much as the actresses and you!
Nevertheless, we will not give up and will do everything possible to be able to re-offer it to you at a later date, to finally spend the evening with these ladies! … We keep our fingers crossed that, from the start entering the new year which is looming on the horizon, our hopes of seeing all the activities of the Théâtre Les 7 Chandelles resume in a fluid and lasting manner come to fruition! … We strongly expect to succeed in sharing with you our dreams and our projects again. and beautiful moments. Thus, we invite you to meet for an unmissable evening: January 23, 2021 at 8:30 pm ″.
Marc Bélit, the Parvis
REPRESENTATION OR EVENT
“This end of the year, the alternative is once again posed in these terms: representation or demonstration. For more than a year now, with periods of high and low intensity, France has exploded in the street where it is confined to her home. Two poles of an alternating current where a social electricity circulates sometimes close to the short-circuit. Everything is there, the most extreme danger: a pandemic still poorly controlled on a global scale, attacks which increase the feeling of insecurity, a general climate of hatred and mistrust of all against all, which disputes it with diffuse resentment. Tomorrow, with the economic crisis which will strike the weakest, this raises fears of an increase in insecurity and we say to ourselves that in a world which until now had only had in view civil peace, security and well-being of all with related social spending, creeps a reality that we thought we had dismissed: the tragic feeling of life.
This is not new, humanity has always been faced with drama, war against each other, tragedy. This is exactly why we invented the theater. Now what is the theater that was called tragic in the fourth century BC in Greece if not this: a representation made by characters in action called actors who show reality on its face. more terrible and which, by the terror and the pity which they inspire, produce the appeasement of the spectators. What Aristotle called in his time “catharsis” was called in the 17th century “purgation of passions”.
It was the first artistic representation of the misfortunes of men on a stage, a ritual or a game as one likes. Once night fell on the theater or the curtain if it was inside, the spectator could breathe. What he had seen what he had feared, what had made him tremble, cry or even laugh, that was only theater, representation, much less terrible than reality. It was like a nightmare that we wake up in the morning saying to ourselves: it’s over. So reason the artists, actors, comedians, musicians, dancers, circus artists, who are waiting to come out of this bad dream during which their theater, their dance hall, concert hall, was closed. Think about it: no more spectacle, no more place of transfer, no more emotional purge, all that remains is the anguish and the irrepressible, irrational, vital force to go out and break everything: thus argue the demonstrators, each with his own. personal resentment!
Oh, I know that is not the main cause of these Saturday demonstrations which the country has grown accustomed to and which traders are obsessed with. They are perhaps and even surely caused by other motives, other political calculations, but the energy that drives them, this taste for destruction that inhabits them, for ordeal by the fire put on the street. , the hatred of a world which until now passed for a civilized society, all this becomes tragic. Everyone fears death by accident which would unleash the crowd for good. The police know it, the streets know it, the authorities fear it and are paralyzed by it. We are still living in a minor way the space of a society sick of a virus certainly but of a pathological state just as much.
Let us say it clearly, we have lived in relative peace for almost a century (not quite in truth) but all the same, we have forgotten the terrible bloodletting wrought by the war in the social body and the horror that this represented. Do they realize, those who govern us, that society is a complex whole and that we cannot treat every problem as if it were a whole in itself. There is a globality to be taken into account, the people need collective outlets. War is certainly one, let us pray that he does not come and find us. The party and the spectacle are another and important, because they summon the collective imagination and channel it. We cannot long deprive a society of it without collateral damage. The street in these troubled times has become a theater of clashes and the social mime of the forces present: a police force which symbolizes constraint, defending itself against the rest and a people, or at least what takes its place, which dream of revolution. Role games. Who does not see this? Symbolic satisfaction that turns into a show the same day on television or in social networks and transforms the demonstrators into actors. Without being on stage, the performance takes place in reality. Dangerous game if there is one. We want to say with Rousseau and against him: “no happy people, these are not your parties”, we do not play revolution indefinitely without one day it gets out of hand for good!
And to the rulers, to our rulers, we will say: these are not good decisions that you take in the long term. To prolong too much the disease weakens the patient. You need safety valves, you have to keep social balance and know how to decompress. We must reopen the Theaters as soon as possible and tomorrow the restaurants and bars, we must bring calm back to where the anguish was and let society live at its binary rhythm which is that of the heart, that of life at the end. account. Making the right decision is called governing while appeasing. Let the hot and cold blow out will eventually make you cough for good! “
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